Finally, Workbench 2.0 rectified the problem of applications hooking directly into the input-events stream to capture keyboard and mouse movements, sometimes locking up the whole system.

There was once a suggestion," said Zenow chattily, "that the Emperor be outfitted with a complete set of computerized equipment in his palace, hooked directly into the Library system, so that he would not need to wait for service.

According to designer Walter Mahy, the original design for the Mouth of Sauron's costume had the helmet hooked directly into the mouth, pulling it permanently open.

Eventually, though, the thousands of phi-contacts slid home, and he was in control of the ship, hooked directly into the main computer as well as in telepathic radio contact with it through the terminal in his brain.

He pressed another button, this one hooked directly to the Combat Information Center and his longtime friend and partner, David Luger.

The long canvas hoses hooked directly into the Overlook's plumbing system, and by turning a single valve you could become a one-man fire department.

Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases.

If you have a radio transceiver in your head, hooked directly into your nervous system, would that be sort of like telepathy?

He went to the cellular phone, which was cradled on the side of the monitor and hooked directly into the ROC'S uplink.

The simple tool allows you to design and create a bespoke job search widget for deployment on your site hooking directly into the Jobcentre plus job search database.